Facilitating

The Question Formulation

Technique (QFT)

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 About This Template

Just add a Question Focus to this template to facilitate the Question

Formulation Technique in your classroom or to introduce the process to
colleagues.

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Rules for Producing Questions

Ask as many questions as you can

Do not stop to discuss, judge or answer the questions
Write down every question exactly as it is stated
Change any statement into a question

What might be difficult about following these rules?

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Producing the Questions

Question Focus:

1. Follow the Rules for Producing Questions.

2. Number your questions.

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Improve Your Questions

You might have these two kinds of questions in your list:

Closed-ended questions they can be answered with

yes or no or with one word.

Open-ended questions they require an explanation

and cannot be answered with yes or no or with one
word.

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Improve Your Questions

Identify closed- and open-ended questions.

1. Mark the closed-ended questions with a C and the open-

ended questions with an O.

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Improve Your Questions

2. Name advantages of asking closed-ended questions.

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3. Name disadvantages of asking closed-ended questions.

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4. Name advantages of asking open-ended questions.

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5. Name disadvantages of asking open-ended questions.

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Improve Your Questions

6. Review your list of questions and change one closed-ended

question into an open-ended.

Then, change one open-ended question into a closed-ended

one.

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Prioritize Your Questions

Choose the three most important questions from your

list.

Keep in mind the Question Focus.

Mark each priority question with an X

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Share Your Questions

Please share:

The questions you changed from closed to open-ended

and from open-ended to closed. Read each question
as originally written and how it was changed

Your three priority questions

Your rationale for selecting those three

The numbers of your priority questions

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Next Steps

1. How are you going to use your three priority questions?

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Reflection

1. What did you learn?

2. What value does it have?

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